"It sounds like a horror movie". That's what Stephen Fife's friend said when he told her what happened at his private prep school in New York City....

"It sounds like a horror movie". That's what Stephen Fife's friend said when he told her what happened at his private prep school in New York City....

A collection of stories that depict Westerners encountering Africa -- its people, its mysteries, its beauty and bafflements. Often those encounters...

A collection of stories that depict Westerners encountering Africa -- its people, its mysteries, its beauty and bafflements. Often those encounters...

Personal essays on the theme "local truth". Piquant, surprising, unpredictable prose from 75 of the finest emerging writers of the East and West Co...

David Lang was once a big deal - a cult hero who wrote and directed the underground horror flick Zombie Film Schooland its two sequels in the late ...

Mats Svensson is a photographer who took 60,000 photos in the occupied Palestinian territories over several years and winnowed them down to the 92 ...

At last, a friendly, helpful, and sometimes humorous guide that demystifies Arab, Arab-American, and Muslim cultures. This handbook is the perfect,...

At last, a friendly, helpful, and sometimes humorous guide that demystifies Arab, Arab-American, and Muslim cultures. This handbook is the perfect,...

A middle-aged playwright -- in conflict with his ex-wife, his current girlfriend, and a legion of creditors -- journeys from Hollywood to Atlanta t...

The modern Middle East often seems like a web of problems none of which has proven more intractable over the last half century than the Israeli-Ara...

The stories in Dam Foolishness are based on the author's life experiences that began in the small village of Carthage, New York, tucked away in the...

In the Middle East under Ottoman rule Freemasonry was tolerated, emerging in the ancient city of Damascus as early as 1868 and continuing under col...

Refugees from the Middle East and Asia who have fled famine and violence and resettled in the US too often are isolated, disconnected, living in de...

This book is about raw visual imagination and the essential creative practice that's required to be a visual artist. The book is broken into three ...

Elizabeth Jenkins, 17, raised on a Congo mission station, is under intense pressure to marry the station doctor, twenty years her senior. Hours bef...

Elizabeth Jenkins, 17, raised on a Congo mission station, is under intense pressure to marry the station doctor, twenty years her senior. Hours bef...

This startlingly edgy, seductive debut collection of short stores, travels from New York to Northern California, Mexico, Los Angeles and Paris, dro...

Professor Tom Gage portrays eight modern educators and the development of their theories viewed from personal, cultural, and historical perspective...

Professor Tom Gage portrays eight modern educators and the development of their theories viewed from personal, cultural, and historical perspective...

This is a street level view of Syria from 1965 that is far more nuanced than most reports in the US media. Tarif Bakdash, MD was born and raised in...

This is a street level view of Syria from 1965 that is far more nuanced than most reports in the US media. Tarif Bakdash, MD, was born and raised i...

This book chronicles a Lebanese immigrant experience -- based on a cache of more than 200 letters discovered after the death of the author's mother...